Officers Rodney May and Brandon Harris of the Opelousas Police Department search an Opelousas residence during a pre-dawn round-up of suspected drug dealers Wednesday.

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Evan Moore emoore@dalyworld.com

Few sounds are louder than a battering ram striking a steel door at 5:30 a.m.

That cannon-like thud sounded once, twice, three times along the 400 block of West Tennis Street in Opelousas Wednesday morning as police began a narcotics roundup that would net 15 arrests in little more than two hours.

It was not only loud. It was effective. With the third blow from the steel bar, the door gave, crashing inward. Police moved inside Apartment 4 at 410 W. Tennis and emerged with David Jason, the first of the arrests made by the officers in operation "Throwback - Takedown." ...